A Tennessee Republican running for governor is facing national outrage. Monty Fritts openly called for executing the parents of transgender children and doctors providing gender-affirming care. On a Christian Nationalist podcast, Fritts said, “I think we need a law in Tennessee that would allow for capital punishment… I think that anyone who would try to disfigure a child through hormones or surgery, you might be eligible to capital punishment.”
The comments come as the United States debates trans rights following a US Supreme Court ruling upholding Tennessee’s care ban.
